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Response to a preacher's justification for switching from KJV to ESV.

(Video - 49 mins; PDF of slides - 22 slides; Feb. 2024)
(Update to Septuagint info, Point 3, citing links to supporting online resources, Sept. 2024)
A detailed analysis of the impacts one embraces when uncritically accepting modern Bibles based on the critical text (CT), also known in scholarly circles and seminaries as the Nestle Aland - United Bible Societies text (NA-UBS, or NU for short).

(Link to 15-page PDF file; Sept. 2023)
The late Edward F. Hills (1912-1981) comprehensive work, "The King James Version Defended: A Christian View of the New Testament Manuscripts", presents a compelling argument for the KJV and old tradition. What makes the KJV worth defending is that it is the only translation of the ecclesiastical text (i.e., the textus receptus) other than Young's Literal 2nd edition and Greens. A scholarly yet readable introduction by the late Dr. David P. Letis is worth your time. Hills was a well trained classicist and internationally recognized New Testament text critic who analyzed the problems of modern language translations and Westscott-Hort text criticism methodology. This book is a must-have for any pastor's study.

(PDF - 225 pgs; 4th edition)
Dr. P. S. Ferguson is with the Bible Presbyterian Church in Singapore, and offers some powerful insights into the strength of the Textus Receptus. This is a cross-post from the Puritan Board. Yellow highlights are mine.
The Lord saves you. You zealously endeavor to devote your life to the cause of the gospel and Jesus' eternal kingdom. Praise God! But the first place the devil attacks is in your introductory Greek course, where you're handed a different Greek text than what the historic church received and used. In fact, it's less than 150 years old. Read the stuff you're not told about.

(Ministerial summaries with links; updated April 2023)
This article provides an overview of the main issues at stake with the Critical Text, which is an new, eclectic Greek text concocted in 1861 by Westscott and Hort, and now serves as the underlying Greek text for nearly all newer translations of the Bible. Pointers to resources by devoted laymen and scholars alike, in both easy, semi-technical, and in-depth format.

(Article with links to books and videos - updated 2023)
We review 7 other doctrinal impacts due to ESV verse omissions, as found in the Westminster Confession of Faith and Larger Catechism. The loss of several passages show deep impacts due to the ESV's tenacious clinging to the corrupt Alexandrian Text manuscripts. Some passages are at odds with favorable archaeological findings.
24 doctrinal impacts by verses omitted from the ESV, as found in the Belgic Confession of Faith, Heidelberg Catechism, Canons of Dort, Westminster Confession of Faith and Larger Catechism. Some ESV passages make Jesus a liar; others re-write God's rules on divorce.
Do not take add or take away from God's Words. That's the warning in Rev 22:18-19, yet some Bible publishers appear to ignore this commandment. We look at what a closed canon means, as well as a sampling of doctrinal impacts to Christianity affected by the ESV.